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Megan Zanke is known throughout the pages of this site, but she's moved on to work as an editor of Coutorture — a fantastic fashion-centered website with bite. While she definitiely knows a thing or two about fashion, Megan also knows a thing or two about being young and hitting the streets of New York.
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Paul Mecurio is comedy's resident virtuoso; after graduating with high honors from Georgetown Law, Paul ditched a bright future in law for ... well, an even brighter career in comedy. He's even got awards to prove it. Let's see the firm Willkie, Farr and Gallagher hand out Emmys. We caught him in a brief moment between shows in the midwest and two headlining nights at New York's Comix (this Friday 26 and Saturday 27) and got him to dish on politics and why he's gotta have his 3am hot dogs with a side of "coffee milk."
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You may not know the hilarious Liam Sullivan, but chances are you have had a close relationship with his alter-ego, Kelly, the shoe-obsessed, gonna-get-what-she-wants betch who has sung/screeched her way into our hearts. LiamShow.com is overflowing with various off-kilter videos and sketches. You can also catch him in unpixelated form as both Liam and Kelly on the Beautiful Tour with comic-maven Margaret Cho when they hit the road in March.
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When living in New York City, it's best to put on your best sparklies, glam it up, and bring the city to its knees. New to the scene but definitely not shy, Joey Kipp is budding boy-lesque performer/choreographer extraordinaire. When he's not up on stage shaking his moneymaker (catch him Friday night at Think.Coffee), or dreaming up silly but stirring routines, Kipp's spreading the love for his birthplace of Brazil.
If you aren't reading FourFour, you're missing out on the magic that is Rich Juzwiak's world. His Mogwai-inspired cat Winston, Tyra Banks, and obscure but perfect pop-culture references dwell hand in hand with knitted-together montages, mix tapes, and photoshopped British worms. In addition to his home base, Rich also does the deeds on VH1's Celebreality.
Bravo's Top Chef kept many a foodie addicted to TV — and launched first-season winner Harold Dieterle into celebrity-chefdom. If his food on the show got you salivating, head to his West Village restaurant Perilla and partake of Dieterle's love for all things duck by tucking into a bowlful of his spicy duck meatballs with Okinawa yam gnocchi. It's what dreams are made of. Until then, check out his take on the city that launched his duckly amour.
While he's stationed in the city that never sleeps, musician David Homyk can be found onstage charming crowds with his pop songs. No matter where New York takes him, Homyk's still a southern boy at heart and loves his hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia, and its addictive hangover remedies.
A rocker with a serious work ethic, musician, singer-songwriter Dan McLachlan has his work cut out for him; in between rehearsals and gigs with two different bands, Four Letter Friend and Pistols at Dawn, he finds moments to play his own solo music and jot around the city he calls home.
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After winning a nationwide search for the role of the new Maytag Repairman in early 2007, Clay Jackson donned the royal-blue suit and hat and has trekked across the country repairing just about everything. When he's not handing out washer/dryers to an audience full of expectant mothers on Ellen or donating machines to homeless shelters in Baltimore, Jackson dreams of his hometown.
He may put the "Mack" in MACK Industries, a cutting-edge Soho marketing and branding agency, but president and creative director Willie Mack has more going on than just his memorable name. (Not to be confused with the eponymous country singer, mind you.) When he's not working on campaigns for Absolut or rubbing elbows with Al Gore and Gisele Bundchen (unfortunately not at the same time), you can find Mack frequenting his favorite haunts in his favorite city.
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How many artists do you know who've been crucified? As in nailed to a cross? British underworld dandy Sebastian Horsley did the whole Christ thing, had it filmed by Sarah Lucas to a soundtrack by Gavin Rossdale, and then fell off, ripping his hands open on the way. He's been a junkie, a whore, and a gangster's bit of rough, and he spent the GDP of a small African country on hookers and H. Harper Perennial publishes his Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography next March — one misery memoir that won't make it into Oprah's Book Club.
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Chris Jericho is like that really fun uncle who whirlwinds into town and stirs up mischief and mayhem — he breaks the rules, man, and loves breaking them. The WWE wrestler turned actor turned rock musician has put out a book as well. Knowing firsthand what it's like to live life in and out of elastic synthetic fiber, Chris Jericho is currently on tour for his book, A Lion's Tale: Around the World in Spandex. He took a moment to discuss his favorite locales when out of the ring.
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Fighting his way through phalanxes of CIA assassins and mysterious international cabals, David Baldacci is currently touring in support of his latest political thriller, Stone Cold. He took a moment to explain why answering certain of our questions would get him murdered in his sleep.
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Curmudgeonhood is not a title lightly claimed, despite many pretenders. Actor, comedian, author, singer, and nominal gay curmudgeon Paul Hallasy stakes his claim to performance fame at Broadway Comedy Club on December 5. Before, after, and perhaps even during, you can supplement the experience by reading his novel, New York Trilogy: New York Underground, Trapped, Love and Sex.
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If we had to find ourselves a modern-day Renaissance man, why not Matt Kliegman. DJ, artist, writer, and filmmaker, Kliegman's a man of many parts. As proof, check out his site, Steamclam.com, plus regularly irregular nights at New York's Gallery Bar, and even better, he's a Midwestern boy with a thing for farmer's daughters. Though Kliegman's thriving in NYC, he's revisiting his roots for our collective benefit.
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Hoping to master the art of living in the present like the Porteños, writer Marina Palmer took a trip to Buenos Aires. She fell hard for the city, and the vacation turned into a permanent move. Her experiences there ultimately inspired her memoir, Kiss & Tango: Looking for Love in Buenos Aires . Palmer still lives and loves in Buenos Aires, and she's happy to share.
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Debriefer: Michael K's New York
On Mondays, Debriefer presents a map of city picks from the previous Friday's interview. Here's a range of New York recommendations from Dlisted's Michael K.
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The pen may be mightier than the sword, but the blog is truly the new weapon of choice. Michael K, creator and writer of Dlisted—one of the web's most popular and unforgiving gossip-blogs—is able to take on the ridiculous and give it a twist of the wit. You may be shocked and addicted, but as his site warns, be very afraid.
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